Our story

The Asian-Medical Students’ Association Service-Oriented Medical Advocates (AMSA-SOMA) is a student-led organization created to provide platforms for advocacies of the medical students in Cebu Institute of Medicine (CIM) particularly in the field of community and public health and research in the spirit of volunteerism. It started as a suggestion of two students who were very much active in community service namely Dena Mae Amor Desabille and Jasmine Suleik who shared their dream to their mentor, Dr. Annely Jane Celocia who also aspired that such organization be established in the said institution. In June 2015, Jasmine Suleik, who later became the founding president, joined the National Medical Students Conference of AMSA-Philippines and created a proposal which paved the way for the foundation of an AMSA-affiliated organization in CIM.